Anti-government protesters taunt police, throwing bottles and stones at them, as they fire upon the protesters with tear gas in street battles outside Thailand parliament in Bangkok yesterday. (EPA)

ENERGY : Eight banks have signed a $585.5-million syndicated loan to finance the Theun-Hinboun hydropower extension project in Laos by the plant operator THPC.

Bangkok: Anti-government demonstrators in Thailand rested but vowed revenge on Wednesday, a day after their blockade of Parliament triggered wild melees with police that left two people dead and more …

BANGKOK, 8 October 2008 (IRIN) - The Narenthorn Emergency Centre of the Thai Public Health Ministry reported on 8 October that 443 people had been injured in violent clashes between anti-government pr…

BANGKOK, Oct 8 (IPS) - The battle for Bangkok has entered a new and violent phase, the logical end of which can only be another bout of military rule. So far, the army chiefs have been insisting that …

Phnom Penh - Cambodia still hoped to hold bilateral talks next week to defuse tensions over an ongoing border dispute despite continued political turmoil in Thailand, government spokesman Khieu Kanhar…

John C. Lincoln North Mountain Hospital . This was the first international agreement for either hospital. The joint venture will provide the Vietnamese hospital’s most seriously ill and injure…

A Cambodian schoolboy eats cooked rice during a school breakfast, supported by the World Food Program at Sangkum Seksa School, in Kampong Speu province, about 65 kilometers (40 miles), west of Phnom P…

(AFP)–Vietnam plans to phase out subsidies and raise electricity rates from next year to make the sector more profitable and attract investment for badly needed new power plants, the government sai…